Verse 1 Mom, I heard you're behind those doors again, somewhere I can't reach you. They tell me you're getting help. They tell me you're being watched. They tell me I can't come inside. And I nod like I understand. But nobody understands what it feels like to know you're hurting and not be able to hold you. Verse 2 I sit in my room at night and stare at my phone. Waiting for a message. Waiting for your voice. Waiting for someone to tell me that you're still fighting. I remember you before the drugs. Your laugh. Your hands. The way you used to call my name. I miss that woman so much that sometimes it feels like I'm grieving someone who's still alive. Pre-Chorus And I wish I could stand outside your door and scream until you hear me. So I'll say it here instead. Chorus Mom, please don't give up. Please don't let the darkness win. I know you're tired. I know you're hurting. I know you don't know how to get out of this. But please, Mom, just hold on a little longer. You can get away from the drugs. You can find your way back. Please don't give up on yourself when I'm still waiting for you. Verse 3 They won't let me visit you. So I talk to an empty room like you're sitting right beside me. I tell you everything I never knew how to say. I'm angry. I'm scared. I'm heartbroken. But underneath all of it I'm just your daughter begging her mother to come home. Bridge I don't need you to be perfect. I don't need you to erase the past. I don't need you to become the mother you used to be overnight. I just need you to keep trying. One day. One hour. One breath at a time. Please. Chorus Mom, please don't give up. Even if you think there's nothing left inside you. I know the drugs have taken so much. I know they've changed you. I know you've lost pieces of yourself. But you're still my mother. And somewhere underneath all that pain, I still believe you're there. So please don't disappear while I'm still calling your name. Verse 4 Sometimes I cry so quietly because I don't want anyone to know. I don't want them to see how terrified I am. Terrified that one day the phone will ring and someone will tell me something I can't take back. So I pray to a God I don't even know if I still believe in. I ask for one thing. Give my mother another morning. Chorus Mom, please don't give up. You don't have to fight the whole world tonight. Just fight for tomorrow. Fight through the shaking. Fight through the memories. Fight through every moment when the drugs call your name. You can do this. You can get clean. You can come back. You can learn to live again. And when they finally open those doors, I want you to walk through them knowing that I never stopped waiting. I never stopped loving you. I never stopped believing that there was still a way back. Outro I can't hold your hand tonight, Mom. I can't sit beside your bed. I can't tell you these words face to face. So I'll leave them here where maybe someday you'll hear them. Please don't give up. Please stay. Keep fighting the drugs. Keep fighting the pain. And if you forget why you're fighting, remember me. Your daughter is still here. Waiting for her mother to come home.
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